Despite vehement opposition from one governing board member, a divided City Council voted Wednesday to grant one-year contracts to the city’s department directors.

Mayor Alfonso Ortiz cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the contracts after Councilors Tonita Gurule-Giron and David Romero voted against the measure and Councilors Andrew Feldman and Diane Moore voted in favor.

The Public Regulation Commission has failed to keep proper records for use of state vehicles by commissioners and agency workers, creating potential tax problems for those who commute in a government car, according to an independent audit released Wednesday.

The Las Vegas/San Miguel Chamber of Commerce’s decision to lobby against a local collaborative’s state tourism grant application has one city councilor proposing that the chamber’s city funding be eliminated.

The chamber’s lobbying against the $40,000 grant application appears to be the reason the application was rejected without even being scored.

Friday, Dec. 22 — To steal a man’s property and then borrow his horses and wagon with which to get away with it is an audacious bit of thievery, which demonstrates that the man who stole the materials for S.L. Barker’s Christmas dinner last night is possessed of plenty of nerve. Leaving a quantity of groceries in his wagon at the hitchrack of the Gross Kelly company on Railroad Avenue, Mr. Barker went to the Santa Fe depot last evening to meet train No. 10. When he returned his wagon was gone.